Myths about the Roman Goddess AuroraAurora, goddess of the
morning, was the youngest daughter of Hyperion and Theia,
or, according to some, of Titan and
Terra. Orpheus calls her the
harbinger of Titan, for she is the
personification of that light which
precedes the appearance of the sun. The
poets describe this goddess as rising out of the ocean in a
saffron robe, seated in a flame-colored car, drawn by two or
four horses, expanding with her rosy fingers the gates of
light, and scattering the pearly dew.

Virgil represents her
horses as of flame color, and varies their number from two
to four, according as she rises slower or faster.

She is said to have been daughter of Titan and the earth,
because the light of the morning seems to rise out of the
earth, and to proceed from the sun, which immediately
follows it. She is styled mother of the four winds, because,
after a calm in the night, the winds rise in the morning, as
attendant upon the sun, by whose heat and light they are
begotten. There is no other goddess of whom we have so many
beautiful descriptions in the poets.